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Chicago examiner sunday price five cents vol xii no 42 a m c ***** sunday Chicago april 21 1912 j bruce ismay trying to explain the managing director of the white star line testifying before the in vestigating committee of the united slates senate in his testimony ismay admitted that the titanic was rushing a cad at terrific speed although he had been warned that icebergs were in th path of the ship he admitted that many women went down with the lit nic although he himself escaped in a lifeboat with other women and children mississippi breaks dikes and drowns hundreds who flee to uplands thousands homeless reports place number of dead i high as 200 delta flower t land of south is under [ water situation is grave more than 6,000 refugees j are in one camp and food j supply is short gov brew j { er sending aid to sufferers i memphis tenn april 20.-with n . tteath list variously estimated at from , tttj to two hundred the break in the j ower tazoo levee at beulah miss rap i idly widening now 500 feet wide the beau ] tiful mississippi delta flower land of < the south where the eea island cotton j grows and the most thickly inhabited sec i lon yet risited by the flood is being ] rapidly converted into an inland sea al i ready it is estimated that more than \ twenty-five square miles liave been iuun < bated and the water is spreading with , greater rapidity than at any break which < lias yet occurred thousands of families , are deprived of homes hundreds have ' been rescued and many more are awaiting , rescue in remote parts the limited uuin j jier of rescuers have been as yet unable to reach flood moves southward to-night the water had reached on the east indianola twenty-five miles from the break at beulah miss four miles south of kosedale miss the flood is gradually moving south and eastward nnd it is said greenville the largest town in its path will have been reached tomorrow a bcore of small towns are now under water rou three to ten feet deep and relief of all the homeless is a stupendous task deaths from exposure are reported dally from the breaks at panther bend al eatia water is still spreading over south eastern arkansas nml northern louisiana at memphis the situation is much relieved cud the vlver falling rapidly above it is believed tho worst will soon be passed late to-day engineers were called to con centrate nt xlbletta a few miles below the beulah break where a neak spot hud de d^pc't a break is feared hourly hut as ?<& none has occurred jackson ass april 20.-governor earl brewer was advised to-day there are 6,000 refugees in camp at cleveland and hat the food supply will last less than wenty-fuur hours fifteen persons also were drowned near benoit miss when the levee broke be tween benolt and beulah unverified re ports of other and more extensive loss of life were received at greenville to-day because of the extent of the present flood river observers express the opinion that the loss of life in this section of the delta will reach the hundreds rescue work at rosedale coutinued to day with an increased force of workers bouts were further inland and brought out many marooned residents the beulah crevaÃŸse early to-day was more than 2,000 feet wide with the ends still caving many refugees from the interior have been taken to the levees and from there will be transferred to ether points by boat the water from the break is rapidly ap proaching itosedale but was not in sight early to-day water from dog-tall crevasse 1 s flooded tallulah la under water from twp to ten facts in regard to fatal mississippi flood ( reports from the flooded area \ ' ? predict further damage and loss of \ > life ; > two hundred are reported j > drowned in bolivar county mis i s sissippi | ' < twenty thousand are homeless < Â£ and food supply is short in camps \ i of refugees < Â£ vicksburg calls for aid 5 many dikes broken and others } > expected to go to-day flooding vast > \ areas of fruit lands i 1 fifteen drowned near benolt j i miss s governor brewer is helping suf ( ( ferers and relief boats are sent out < i government experts look upon sit i ) uation as grave \ s residents of threatened district i s deserting their homes as river > < rises j i tornadoes sweep across okla j ) homa killing several and wiping | ) out several email towns wreck / s ing hundreds of homes fire cry in film show starts panic 20 hurt women and children trampled in stampede in crowded phoenix ville pa theater phoenixville pa april 20.-a false alarm of fire shouted from the gallery of the colonial theater during a moving pic ture show here to-night threw into a panic the audience of a thousand people and was followed by a mad stampede in which more than a score of persons were in jured women and children - were tram pled in the mad rush of frenzied men and women for the theater exits and hotels and stores in the neighborhood were con verted into emergency hospitals the sudden failure of the electric lights in the building and throughout the busi ness section of the town was caused by a belt slipping from an electric generator at the local plant and the period of dark uess lasted no longer than three minutes while repairs were being made when an attache of the theater struck a match to light a gas jet a spectator in the gallery shouted fire and immediately the auflionce struggled to its feet and fought in the darkness toward the doors when the theater was again lighted hun dreds of personÃŸ had fought their way out through the main exits with the oout ing of the light the stampede ceased a man leaping from the balcony fell on mrs fred salath and her little daughter felling them to the floor most of the victims were suffering from mental anguish caused by their separation from members of their families tied nervousness caused by the shock five are killed in wreck broken axle blamed for burlington freight leaving track fort morgan colo april 20 five men nre dead to-day as a result of the wrecking of a Chicago burlington & quincy freight train no 70 twelve miles from here those killed were tramps and an other tramp james sheperd of creston la suffered two broken legs twenty-two loaded freight cars including a car of bullion were dumped into the ditch a broken axle on the fourth car from the eugine is blamed for the wreck kansas city visitor dies custave pearson city comptroller expires in hotel la salle gustave pearson city comptroller of kansas city mo was found dead in bed in his reom at the hotel la balle yes terday he is believed te have died of heart disease he registered several days ago employes became suspicious when pearson did not leave his room in the afternoon and when they investigated found him dead his tiaad covered by the , bed clothing ho was forty-five years old fifty men in riot 12 hurt 15 arrested feud begun years ago in greece breaks out on west madison street over a dozen men were cut and bruised one being injured so seriously he had to be taken to the county hospital and fifteen others were arrested in a riot in which fifty participated at west madison and paulina streets yesterday afternoon street cars were tied up and hundreds of persons had gathered when patrol wagons with fifteen policemen arrived from the lake street and desplniues street sta tions thomas kalos 1563 west madison sheet was beaten on the heatl with a > bottle and made unconscious his head face rnd budy were badly bruised and lacerated a feud which had its inception in greece years ago is said to have been responsible for the outbreak james kalos a brother of the man taken to the hos pital and james monos are said by the police to have been the leaders james kalos owns a merchandise store at 1658 west madison street monos has a similar place at 1622 west madison street the two are said to have been reared in rival provinces of greece and to have been bitter enemies for years be fore they came to the united states shortly after 1 o'clock james kalos and monos came to blows in west madiaon street near paulina street and each called upon their fellow men for aid their countrymen rushed into the street some armed with bottles and others carrying i clubs and stones in the middle of tho street the two sldei clashed many of the combatants were felled and lay stunned on the car tracks monos uud james kalos were the first arrested and then thirteen others were locked up kalos was charged with as bault and battery and disorderly conduct and monos was booked for inciting to riot and dliorderly conduct the others were all booked on charges of disorderly conduct â€” american venus to wed granddaughter of late governor bev eridge new yorker's bride speelal cable to tha examiner london april 20 by wireless via glace bay miss ray beveridge actreas daughter of the late baroness ella von wrene and who 1b internationally known as the american venug will be mar . ried in the chapel hoyal savoy here to morrow to irving madison se.'iger r.f new yoiki she will leave the stage miis j bevernge is a sister of kuline beveridge | the sctlptress and a granddaughter ot i the latl john l beveridge one-tim govj eruor it Illinois gas blast blows up pavemeut 2 hurt flames spent through side walk in spectacular blaze on west monroe street â– two linemen were burned about the head ami face and fort horses had to be led from the police department barn a three-story brick buildiug at 741 west monroe street last night after two ex plosions of gas had shaken the structure and for a time threatened to destroy it by a fire which ifaped from the cellar through to the sidewalk the explosions two hours apart were of gas that escaped from old pipes which had been capped under the sidewalk in front of the barn and was ignited by crossed electric wires those injured were james owens thirty-seven years old 2851 washburne avenue j c smith thirty-three years old 2543 west madison street owens and smith had gone down through a hole in the sidewalk with electric torches when the second explosion occurred and a sheet of flame this time coming from a four-inch pipe three feet from the other one burned both men jatne3 ryan the watchman employed in the bam which is used as a supply station also by tue department was knocked down but escaped injury when in the basement shortly after 8 o'clock when the flrat ex plosion occurred beatty takes up five men aviator breaks american passenger ca-ry'ng record new york april 20 george w beattv the aviator broke the american passenger carrying record in nassau bou levard old this afternoon when he took up live passengers and remained aloft with them while he corered four miles about the course the combined weight of the six men was 848 pounds one pas senger sat beside the aviator another in the flr6t n-an's lap and the other three lay on the lower plane close to the avi ator's seat lewy insured for 20,000 the only Chicago life insurance company which snfferÃŸ a loss by the wreck of the titanie is the Illinois which issued a poliey fer 520,000 on the life of jrwio q lew,v at the firm of lewv i^-others the jewelers tuu r-<>mpany is fattened he was lost ai ea and is ready te pay the loss whenever it is claimed five killed in tonc war j san k'.am is'co april bo pife china lufrii have been killed in :; cons w.de tong r vwo battles occurred 10-clght in han street man at titanic wheel during crash held as witness by senators investigators send tug 25 miles down harbor to take sailor off liner inquiry goes to washington to prevent tampering with witnesses bw york april 20 the senate committee appointed to investigate nthe sinking of the liner titanlo closed a day of unearthing develop ments of supreme importance by having quartermaster hichens of the titanic taken from the outgoing liner lapland at sandy hook and brought back to this city under a subpoena hichens had started for southampton with 181 other members of the crew of the liner having been released by the committee after several officers and members of the ship's crew had been selected to remain for further examination after the lapland had sailed however senator wil liam alden smith chairman of the committee discovered new facts whi"e made it imperative that hichens testify the wireless was used and t lapland held until a tug arrived hichens is said to have been at tnt tltanio's wheel when she struck the berg mrs astor may be called as witness all available survivors of the titanic will be called before the com mittee including mrs j j astor colonel archibald grade and relatives of all the prominent men who were lost members of the committee expressed the determination to call every man woman and child who can tell anything about the disaster harold bride assistant wireless operator on the titanic told the committee to-day that the german ship frankfurt responded promptly to the tltanic's dis tress signal but that instead of the frankfurt rushing to the relief of the british ship the german steamer's wireless operator repeatedly asked what was the matter so persistently was this inquiry pounded into the ears of phillips the tltanic's chief operator that he indignantly replied to the german you are a fool bride's testimony also indicated that the frankfurt was nearer to the titanic than the carpathia * alexander gordon a former engineer of the white star line declared that the white star officials knew as early as 3:30 a m monday that the titanic was sinking wire chiefs on stand if necessary it it shall prove necessary in order to determine definitely the time the white star officials in new york received the first news that the ti tanic had gone down the senate investigating committee will subpoena the officers of the western union and postal telegraph companies to pro duce all the business they handled that dealt with that subject that the soene in the dining room on sunday night was the gayest of the voyage as has been persistently reported was confirmed late to-day by assistant steward thomas whitely who told of the dinner served at 7 o'clock at which the general toast was the mighty titanic much wine was disposed of anj preparations had been made for a banquet in new york upon arrival of the titanic to celebrate the record-breaking trip of the greatest steamship in the world i the ounard line announced that the speed of their ocean greyhound the mauretanla and the lusitania would not be reduced on account of thjb accident but that thei ships would take a more southerly course thus^b creasing the trip ab-^blso miles am a movement is o k>t to erect a suitably memorial in waghiuj^b^h _. a * amw ___ m _â– _ hymn for survivors of the titanic by hall caine london april 20 â€” hall caine the famous english novelist has icritten the following hymn for the hearst neicspapers in europe and amerifa to the tune of god our help in ages past cord of the everlasting hills god of the boundless sea help us through all the shocks of fate to keep our trust in thee 77 1 hen nature's unre lenting arm sweep us like withes away maker of man be thou our strength and our eternal stay 77 1 hen blind insen sate heartless force puts out our passing breath make us to see thy guid ing light in darkness and in death beneath the roll of soundless waves our best and bravest lie ; give us to feel their spirits live immortal in the sky 77 1 e are thy children frail and small formed of the lowly sod comfort our bruised and bleeding souls father and lord and god continued en bth page 2d column for Chicago and vicinity 9 showers sunday monday probably fair no important change in tempera m i*v ture brisk to high easterly winds artt sunday shifting to westerly by mon gÂ»"Â»jf-s . . e . <"%"? uange of temperatures yesterday lowest 40 average 4c x r"ils ilidl 1 iv-'in v-uinoi3 i jf x news urajilv autos vaiijevillk i news music s sports 7 want ads 4 society ktal estaxfi foreign finajsciaii 6 cittt ufe b magazine 6 editorial 9 comic

Chicago examiner sunday price five cents vol xii no 42 a m c ***** sunday Chicago april 21 1912 j bruce ismay trying to explain the managing director of the white star line testifying before the in vestigating committee of the united slates senate in his testimony ismay admitted that the titanic was rushing a cad at terrific speed although he had been warned that icebergs were in th path of the ship he admitted that many women went down with the lit nic although he himself escaped in a lifeboat with other women and children mississippi breaks dikes and drowns hundreds who flee to uplands thousands homeless reports place number of dead i high as 200 delta flower t land of south is under [ water situation is grave more than 6,000 refugees j are in one camp and food j supply is short gov brew j { er sending aid to sufferers i memphis tenn april 20.-with n . tteath list variously estimated at from , tttj to two hundred the break in the j ower tazoo levee at beulah miss rap i idly widening now 500 feet wide the beau ] tiful mississippi delta flower land of < the south where the eea island cotton j grows and the most thickly inhabited sec i lon yet risited by the flood is being ] rapidly converted into an inland sea al i ready it is estimated that more than \ twenty-five square miles liave been iuun < bated and the water is spreading with , greater rapidity than at any break which < lias yet occurred thousands of families , are deprived of homes hundreds have ' been rescued and many more are awaiting , rescue in remote parts the limited uuin j jier of rescuers have been as yet unable to reach flood moves southward to-night the water had reached on the east indianola twenty-five miles from the break at beulah miss four miles south of kosedale miss the flood is gradually moving south and eastward nnd it is said greenville the largest town in its path will have been reached tomorrow a bcore of small towns are now under water rou three to ten feet deep and relief of all the homeless is a stupendous task deaths from exposure are reported dally from the breaks at panther bend al eatia water is still spreading over south eastern arkansas nml northern louisiana at memphis the situation is much relieved cud the vlver falling rapidly above it is believed tho worst will soon be passed late to-day engineers were called to con centrate nt xlbletta a few miles below the beulah break where a neak spot hud de d^pc't a break is feared hourly hut as ? life ; > two hundred are reported j > drowned in bolivar county mis i s sissippi | ' < twenty thousand are homeless < Â£ and food supply is short in camps \ i of refugees < Â£ vicksburg calls for aid 5 many dikes broken and others } > expected to go to-day flooding vast > \ areas of fruit lands i 1 fifteen drowned near benolt j i miss s governor brewer is helping suf ( ( ferers and relief boats are sent out < i government experts look upon sit i ) uation as grave \ s residents of threatened district i s deserting their homes as river > < rises j i tornadoes sweep across okla j ) homa killing several and wiping | ) out several email towns wreck / s ing hundreds of homes fire cry in film show starts panic 20 hurt women and children trampled in stampede in crowded phoenix ville pa theater phoenixville pa april 20.-a false alarm of fire shouted from the gallery of the colonial theater during a moving pic ture show here to-night threw into a panic the audience of a thousand people and was followed by a mad stampede in which more than a score of persons were in jured women and children - were tram pled in the mad rush of frenzied men and women for the theater exits and hotels and stores in the neighborhood were con verted into emergency hospitals the sudden failure of the electric lights in the building and throughout the busi ness section of the town was caused by a belt slipping from an electric generator at the local plant and the period of dark uess lasted no longer than three minutes while repairs were being made when an attache of the theater struck a match to light a gas jet a spectator in the gallery shouted fire and immediately the auflionce struggled to its feet and fought in the darkness toward the doors when the theater was again lighted hun dreds of personÃŸ had fought their way out through the main exits with the oout ing of the light the stampede ceased a man leaping from the balcony fell on mrs fred salath and her little daughter felling them to the floor most of the victims were suffering from mental anguish caused by their separation from members of their families tied nervousness caused by the shock five are killed in wreck broken axle blamed for burlington freight leaving track fort morgan colo april 20 five men nre dead to-day as a result of the wrecking of a Chicago burlington & quincy freight train no 70 twelve miles from here those killed were tramps and an other tramp james sheperd of creston la suffered two broken legs twenty-two loaded freight cars including a car of bullion were dumped into the ditch a broken axle on the fourth car from the eugine is blamed for the wreck kansas city visitor dies custave pearson city comptroller expires in hotel la salle gustave pearson city comptroller of kansas city mo was found dead in bed in his reom at the hotel la balle yes terday he is believed te have died of heart disease he registered several days ago employes became suspicious when pearson did not leave his room in the afternoon and when they investigated found him dead his tiaad covered by the , bed clothing ho was forty-five years old fifty men in riot 12 hurt 15 arrested feud begun years ago in greece breaks out on west madison street over a dozen men were cut and bruised one being injured so seriously he had to be taken to the county hospital and fifteen others were arrested in a riot in which fifty participated at west madison and paulina streets yesterday afternoon street cars were tied up and hundreds of persons had gathered when patrol wagons with fifteen policemen arrived from the lake street and desplniues street sta tions thomas kalos 1563 west madison sheet was beaten on the heatl with a > bottle and made unconscious his head face rnd budy were badly bruised and lacerated a feud which had its inception in greece years ago is said to have been responsible for the outbreak james kalos a brother of the man taken to the hos pital and james monos are said by the police to have been the leaders james kalos owns a merchandise store at 1658 west madison street monos has a similar place at 1622 west madison street the two are said to have been reared in rival provinces of greece and to have been bitter enemies for years be fore they came to the united states shortly after 1 o'clock james kalos and monos came to blows in west madiaon street near paulina street and each called upon their fellow men for aid their countrymen rushed into the street some armed with bottles and others carrying i clubs and stones in the middle of tho street the two sldei clashed many of the combatants were felled and lay stunned on the car tracks monos uud james kalos were the first arrested and then thirteen others were locked up kalos was charged with as bault and battery and disorderly conduct and monos was booked for inciting to riot and dliorderly conduct the others were all booked on charges of disorderly conduct â€” american venus to wed granddaughter of late governor bev eridge new yorker's bride speelal cable to tha examiner london april 20 by wireless via glace bay miss ray beveridge actreas daughter of the late baroness ella von wrene and who 1b internationally known as the american venug will be mar . ried in the chapel hoyal savoy here to morrow to irving madison se.'iger r.f new yoiki she will leave the stage miis j bevernge is a sister of kuline beveridge | the sctlptress and a granddaughter ot i the latl john l beveridge one-tim govj eruor it Illinois gas blast blows up pavemeut 2 hurt flames spent through side walk in spectacular blaze on west monroe street â– two linemen were burned about the head ami face and fort horses had to be led from the police department barn a three-story brick buildiug at 741 west monroe street last night after two ex plosions of gas had shaken the structure and for a time threatened to destroy it by a fire which ifaped from the cellar through to the sidewalk the explosions two hours apart were of gas that escaped from old pipes which had been capped under the sidewalk in front of the barn and was ignited by crossed electric wires those injured were james owens thirty-seven years old 2851 washburne avenue j c smith thirty-three years old 2543 west madison street owens and smith had gone down through a hole in the sidewalk with electric torches when the second explosion occurred and a sheet of flame this time coming from a four-inch pipe three feet from the other one burned both men jatne3 ryan the watchman employed in the bam which is used as a supply station also by tue department was knocked down but escaped injury when in the basement shortly after 8 o'clock when the flrat ex plosion occurred beatty takes up five men aviator breaks american passenger ca-ry'ng record new york april 20 george w beattv the aviator broke the american passenger carrying record in nassau bou levard old this afternoon when he took up live passengers and remained aloft with them while he corered four miles about the course the combined weight of the six men was 848 pounds one pas senger sat beside the aviator another in the flr6t n-an's lap and the other three lay on the lower plane close to the avi ator's seat lewy insured for 20,000 the only Chicago life insurance company which snfferÃŸ a loss by the wreck of the titanie is the Illinois which issued a poliey fer 520,000 on the life of jrwio q lew,v at the firm of lewv i^-others the jewelers tuu r-<>mpany is fattened he was lost ai ea and is ready te pay the loss whenever it is claimed five killed in tonc war j san k'.am is'co april bo pife china lufrii have been killed in :; cons w.de tong r vwo battles occurred 10-clght in han street man at titanic wheel during crash held as witness by senators investigators send tug 25 miles down harbor to take sailor off liner inquiry goes to washington to prevent tampering with witnesses bw york april 20 the senate committee appointed to investigate nthe sinking of the liner titanlo closed a day of unearthing develop ments of supreme importance by having quartermaster hichens of the titanic taken from the outgoing liner lapland at sandy hook and brought back to this city under a subpoena hichens had started for southampton with 181 other members of the crew of the liner having been released by the committee after several officers and members of the ship's crew had been selected to remain for further examination after the lapland had sailed however senator wil liam alden smith chairman of the committee discovered new facts whi"e made it imperative that hichens testify the wireless was used and t lapland held until a tug arrived hichens is said to have been at tnt tltanio's wheel when she struck the berg mrs astor may be called as witness all available survivors of the titanic will be called before the com mittee including mrs j j astor colonel archibald grade and relatives of all the prominent men who were lost members of the committee expressed the determination to call every man woman and child who can tell anything about the disaster harold bride assistant wireless operator on the titanic told the committee to-day that the german ship frankfurt responded promptly to the tltanic's dis tress signal but that instead of the frankfurt rushing to the relief of the british ship the german steamer's wireless operator repeatedly asked what was the matter so persistently was this inquiry pounded into the ears of phillips the tltanic's chief operator that he indignantly replied to the german you are a fool bride's testimony also indicated that the frankfurt was nearer to the titanic than the carpathia * alexander gordon a former engineer of the white star line declared that the white star officials knew as early as 3:30 a m monday that the titanic was sinking wire chiefs on stand if necessary it it shall prove necessary in order to determine definitely the time the white star officials in new york received the first news that the ti tanic had gone down the senate investigating committee will subpoena the officers of the western union and postal telegraph companies to pro duce all the business they handled that dealt with that subject that the soene in the dining room on sunday night was the gayest of the voyage as has been persistently reported was confirmed late to-day by assistant steward thomas whitely who told of the dinner served at 7 o'clock at which the general toast was the mighty titanic much wine was disposed of anj preparations had been made for a banquet in new york upon arrival of the titanic to celebrate the record-breaking trip of the greatest steamship in the world i the ounard line announced that the speed of their ocean greyhound the mauretanla and the lusitania would not be reduced on account of thjb accident but that thei ships would take a more southerly course thus^b creasing the trip ab-^blso miles am a movement is o k>t to erect a suitably memorial in waghiuj^b^h _. a * amw ___ m _â– _ hymn for survivors of the titanic by hall caine london april 20 â€” hall caine the famous english novelist has icritten the following hymn for the hearst neicspapers in europe and amerifa to the tune of god our help in ages past cord of the everlasting hills god of the boundless sea help us through all the shocks of fate to keep our trust in thee 77 1 hen nature's unre lenting arm sweep us like withes away maker of man be thou our strength and our eternal stay 77 1 hen blind insen sate heartless force puts out our passing breath make us to see thy guid ing light in darkness and in death beneath the roll of soundless waves our best and bravest lie ; give us to feel their spirits live immortal in the sky 77 1 e are thy children frail and small formed of the lowly sod comfort our bruised and bleeding souls father and lord and god continued en bth page 2d column for Chicago and vicinity 9 showers sunday monday probably fair no important change in tempera m i*v ture brisk to high easterly winds artt sunday shifting to westerly by mon gÂ»"Â»jf-s . . e .